Thursday 10th January 2013
Today we decided to go geocaching from Keyhaven near Milford on Sea. There was a circuit of 11 caches and we managed them all in just over a 4 mile walk. We were amazed by the amount of birds and wildlife we saw today, it was a great place and we will definitely have to return when it's a bit warmer! As usual at the moment there was a glut of water and the birds were making the most of the new ponds and lakes.
At the start of the walk we saw bush after bush full of lichen - it looked really odd. After that we saw the following.
- Mute swans x 14 (at the harbour at Keyhaven)
- Mallards
- Common sandpiper
- Oyster catcher
- Curlew
- Herring gull
- Robin
- Blackbird
- Cormorant
- Black headed gulls
- Brent geese
- Wood pigeon
- Canada geese
- Wigeon
- Kestrel
- Magpie
- Shelduck
- Kingfisher
- Grey heron
- Turnstone
- Coot
- Redshank
- Crow
- Black backed gull
- Pintail
- Blue tit
- Great tit
- Little egret (may have been a Spoonbill as it seemed too big to be an egret - but it was too far away to be sure)
- Goats
- Roe deer x 3
- Grey squirrels
Phew, well worth the visit!
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